UNDERGRADUATE HONOR EXAMINATION PAPERS. Trinity Term. SENIOR SOPHISTERS. Classics, PLATO. MR. GRAY. Translate the following passages :— 1. Beginning, Τούτων δὴ οὕτως ἐχόντων ἐπιδυμιῶν, κ. τ. λ. Ending, "Εστιν οὕτως, 2. Beginning, Τὸ δὲ δὴ μετὰ τοῦτο, ὡς ἔοικε, κ. τ. λ. Ending, τῷ ὄντι τωθαζόμενος δῶσεις δίκην. De Rep., lib. iv. 13, Ibid., lib. v. 18, Ibid., lib. viii, 13. 3. Beginning, ̓Αρ ̓ οὖν οὐ πάλιν τε εἰς ἐκείνους κ. τ. λ. Ending, ἀλλ' ἐξ ἴσον τρέφων. Πάνυ μὲν οὖν. CICERO. MR. MAHAFFY, Translate the following passages : ...... 1. Beginning, Recte igitur hæc facta distinctio est,,. Ending, id efficiens dici potest. De Fin. Bon. et Mal., lib. iii. c. 16, 2. Beginning, Ut, quum videmus speciem primum candoremque... Ending, atque hominis utilitati agros omnes et maria parentia. Tuscul. Disput., lib. i. c. 28, ...... 3. Beginning, Sed exeamus e theatro: veniamus in forum,.. Ending, quum aliud sit simulatum, aliud actum. De Nat. Deo, lib. iii, c. 30, 1. To what philosophical school may Cicero be said to belong? and why? 2. How far did Greek philosophy really influence Roman life? 3. In what discussions did the ancients anticipate medieval casuistry? MR. PALMER. Translate the following passage into Greek Prose: Encouraged by this assurance, I looked and beheld a mountain higher than Teneriffe, to the summit of which the human eye could never reach when I had tired myself with gazing upon its height, I turned my eyes towards its foot, which I could easily discover, but was amazed to find it without foundation, and placed inconceivably in emptiness and darkness. Thus I stood terrified and confused; above were tracks inscrutable, and below was total vacuity. But my preceptor, with a voice of admonition, cried out, "Theodore, be not affrighted, but raise thy eyes again; the Mountain of Existence is before thee, survey it and be wise." I then looked with more deliberate attention, and observed the bottom of the mountain to be of gentle rise, and overspread with flowers; the middle to be more steep, embarrassed with crags, and interrupted by precipices, over which hung branches loaded with fruits, and among which were scattered palaces and bowers. The tracts which my eye could reach nearest the top were generally barren; but there were among the clefts of the rocks a few hardy evergreens, which though they did not give much pleasure to the sight or smell, yet seemed to cheer the labour and facilitate the steps of those who were clambering among them. Translate the following passage into Latin Prose : Nothing, therefore, can be more unjust than to charge an author with plagiarism, merely because he assigns to every cause its natural effect; and makes his personages act, as others in like circumstances have always done. There are conceptions in which all men will agree, though each derives them from his own observation: whoever has been in love, will represent a lover impatient of every idea that interrupts his meditations on his mistress, retiring to shades and solitude, that he may muse without disturbance on his approaching happiness, or associating himself with some friend that flatters his passion, and talking away the hours of absence upon his darling subject. Whoever has been so unhappy as to have felt the miseries of long-continued hatred, will, without any assistance from ancient volumes, be able to relate how the passions are kept in perpetual agitation by the recollection of injury, and meditations of revenge; how the blood boils at the name of the enemy, and life is worn away in contrivances of mischief. Translate the following into Greek or Latin Verse :- The shipwreck of my ill-adventured youth; To model forth the passions of the morrow; To add more grief to aggravate my sorrow: Still let me sleep embracing clouds in rain, S. DANIEL. Ethics. DR. STUBBS. ARISTOTLE AND CICERO. 1. Aristotle assigns four proofs of his statement that moral virtue is conversant about pleasures and pains? 2. Aristotle's definition of málŋ and dvváμeig? What reasons does he assign why virtue and vice are not πάθη: 3. That we have no reason to suppose our organs of sense to be percipients is confirmed by two arguments given by Butler, and by two arguments adduced by Cicero ? 4. Cicero's arguments for the immortality of the soul may be reduced to two general classes; what are the arguments belonging to each class? 5. What are the two arguments of Panætius against the immortality of the soul, and how are they refuted by Cicero ? 6. Butler proves by a disjunctive argument that there can be no apprehension that death is the destruction of our living powers? 7. In what respects did the system of Epicurus differ from, and in what did it agree with, those of Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno? 8. With regard to honour and dishonour, what are the Greek words which represent the mean state, the excess, and the defect? Between what two extremes does véμɛoig lie, and how does it differ from each? k DR. TARLETON. 1. Give a connected sketch of Butler's argument in favour of the Moral Government of God. 2 How does Butler show from the nature of the thing the credibility of the present life being a state of discipline for a future? Is it necessary to assume, as a condition of the validity of Butler's argument, the absence of all emotional elements from the character of an absolutely perfect being? 3. How does Butler answer the objection against the whole notion of Moral Discipline, that so far as a course of behaviour materially virtuous proceeds from hope and fear, so far it is only a discipline and strengthening of Self-love ? 4. How does Butler define Character? To what kind of necessitarianism is the existence of character opposed, and how far is it consistent with freedom? There are two senses, according to Butler, in which the theory of Necessity may be said to be destructive of religion? What kind of necessitarianism does Butler seem to have contemplated? 5. Explain Butler's assertions that the actual permission of evil may be beneficial to the world, and that it is clearly conceivable that the very commission of wickedness may be beneficial to the world, and yet that it would be infinitely more beneficial for men to refrain from it. 6. Give a connected view of the whole of Butler's argument in the second part of the Analogy. 7. In what manner may miracles be fairly compared to extraordinary natural phenomena ? How does Butler endeavour to show that the only material question with respect to miracles is, whether there be any such presumption against them as to render them in any sort incredible? Point out the weak parts of Butler's argument here. 8. What objections may be made against arguing from the analogy of Nature to Religion, and how are they answered by Butler ? MR. ABBOTT. 1. Compare the good and evil resulting from compassion. 2. State clearly in what respects Butler agrees with the Stoics as to the place to be assigned to the affections in practice; and in what respects he differs from them. 3. Butler quotes "In every good work trust thy own soul," and "He that trusteth his own heart is a fool." Explain the meaning of these two maxims, and to what extent and in what cases each holds good. 4. Give an account of Butler's criticism on Hobbes' account of pity. 5. State the distinctions between self-love and the particular affections: (a) in kind, (b) as to the nature of their objects and gratifications, (c) as to their relation to happiness. 6. Discuss the advantages of benevolence as a motive over other considerations. 7. Show how it is conceivable that God may become an object to our intellectual faculties. Modern Literature. PROFESSOR DOWDEN. 1. Give some account of Scottish poetry in the fifteenth century. 2. What contributions to literature were made during the twenty years which elapsed from the meeting of the Long Parliament to the Restoration ? 3. Write a brief sketch of the relations of Addison to his contemporaries Steele and Pope. 4. Give some account of Mr. Browning's "Paracelsus." 5. Give, in chronological order, the names of a series of poems illustrating the history of English poetry from the "Crede of Piers Plowman" to the "Shepherd's Kalendar." Add dates when you can. MR. MAHAFFY. I.. Diese war's! Ihr seht es ihr an, sie ist rüstig geboren, Da versetzte der Pfarrer und drückt ihm das Geld in die Hand ein: Weigre sich anzunehmen, was ihm die Milde geboten ! |